@stroughtonsmith how many were subsumed by FCP/Logic?

@stroughtonsmith LIVETYPE! That brings back memories of 20 minute renders on an eMac for a simple title! They were so cool at the time.

@stroughtonsmith Soundtrack Pro was awesome.

@stroughtonsmith i spent hours and hours in most of these apps in High School. DVD Studio never caught on with me but I usually had FCP Soundtrack, and LiveType open all at the same time. I had to horde one of the few 8-Core Mac Pros

@stroughtonsmith wow, TIL about WaveBurner! this looks like something I would have really geeked out on back in those Rip, Mix, Burn days. such beautiful metadata… 🤤

@stroughtonsmith When Apple discontinued Shake, they had an option to get the source code for like $50K. One of the companies that got it was the VFX studio Digital Domain. The code became the base for their in-house compositing tool, Nuke. Nuke itself was sold off years later and is now the industry leading compositing package. Can you imagine modern Apple offering up source code for discontinued software these days?

@sdw @stroughtonsmith if you were ever in the business of making DVD menus, or had to do semi-annoying things like figure out where to split your video content across a layer skip, it was great. Made everything so easy, including weird script driven things and simple variable-based interactions you wouldn’t really think were an accessible part of the DVD menu spec. No software came close to making this stuff accessible to designers who found themselves making a video dvd.